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Reading and Data

February 18, 2019 by Varsha Leave a Comment

Adults love data. They love graphs and statistics and numbers. During workshops with adults, the moment I put up a graph, I have everyone’s attention as if I’m finally saying something ‘real’. And that’s why I started working with real-time polls through Mentimeter. I show my audience a question and all those with smart phones […]

Filed Under: Resources, Workshops Tagged With: Inculcating the Habit of Reading, reading, Workshops for Adults

Making Creative Writing Engaging

February 14, 2019 by Varsha Leave a Comment

Sometimes, I wonder whether secretly, I conduct creative writing workshops more to inspire myself than to inspire the children I work with. Whatever it is, I do know that I enjoy myself tremendously whenever I teach creative writing. I feed off the enthusiasm of the children and I come home ready to write, which is […]

Filed Under: Resources, Workshops Tagged With: Andrew Wright, Creating Stories with Children, creative writing, Fortunately Unfortunately, The Dictionary, The Story-Catcher

Reading Workshops: Why? What? How?

February 7, 2019 by Varsha 2 Comments

Activities at reading workshops - jigsaws

Many, many parents ask me what a reading workshop is. What happens during a reading workshop? Who should attend a reading workshop and why? What will the outcome of a reading workshop be? This post tries to explain all that. What children read and why Often, at reading workshops I conduct, we talk about books […]

Filed Under: Resources, Workshops Tagged With: reading

World Read Aloud Day at the Writers’ Club

February 3, 2019 by Varsha Leave a Comment

The Writers’ Club at St. Mary’s School meets only twice a week, so World Read Aloud Day sometimes becomes Writers’ Club Read Aloud Day, but so what? I celebrated it for the first time last year and it was so much fun that I did it again this year. This time, children came forward and […]

Filed Under: Resources, Workshops Tagged With: How to pick a book, reading, St. Mary's School, World Read Aloud Day, Writers' Club

Working with Librarians

February 2, 2019 by Varsha 2 Comments

During the first two weeks of the year, I made lists of books I loved, and more than once, I found myself writing about how reading levels differ so much that it is difficult to associate a level with an age. Thinking about all of this, I decided write about a reading programme I’ve been […]

Filed Under: Resources, Workshops Tagged With: Alphabet, Challenging Children, Craig Smith, Henk van Oort, librarians, teaching reading

Fortunately-Unfortunately

September 20, 2017 by Varsha Leave a Comment

Option 1 “I am going to meet a monster today.” “Fortunately, it doesn’t bite.” “Unfortunately, that means it will just gobble you up.” Option 2 “I jumped into the swimming-pool today.” “Fortunately, the pool was heated.” “Unfortunately, I cannot swim.” “Fortunately, it was not deep.” Which beginning do you find more entertaining? I was very […]

Filed Under: Children, Resources, Workshops Tagged With: creative writing, St. Mary's School, Writers' Club, writing activities

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